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The making of Red Badge of Courage
50th Anniversary Edition
Da Capo Press
June 2002
On Sale: June 1, 2002
400 pages ISBN: 0306811286 EAN: 9780306811289 Trade Size (reprint)
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Non-Fiction
The fiftieth-anniversary edition of the classic account of
Hollywood's inner workings--voted one of the century's top
100 journalistic works and called by Hemingway "much better
than most novels." In the spring of 1950, when New Yorker staff writer Lillian
Ross heard that John Huston was planning to make a film of
Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, she decided she
would follow the movie's progress "in order to learn
whatever I might learn about the American motion-picture
industry." What resulted was Picture, which Newsweek has
called "the best book on Hollywood ever published." Picture
received raves from the worlds of film and literature in
equal measure for its unforgettable portrait of the
language, the ways, and the preoccupations of Hollywood:
Charlie Chaplin called Picture "brilliant and sagacious" and
legendary editor William Shawn termed it "the definitive
book on the Hollywood community." Little wonder, then, that
when the Top 100 Works of U.S. Journalism of the Twentieth
Century were chosen by the New York University Department of
Journalism and a distinguished panel that included David
Brinkley, Pete Hamill, Jeff Greenfield, Mary McGrory, and
Morley Safer, Picture had an honored place on that list
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